For the most part, employment status was not associated with differences in views about Medicaid’s beneficiaries and purposes, save for one finding: employed enrollees were more likely to endorse the belief that the program should be reserved “for people who cannot work.” This finding was ...
Employing event history analysis and multinomial logistic regression, the study found that a high unemployment rate predicted exits from Medicaid by individuals who would become uninsured. Individuals who were white and employed part-time were likely to become uninsured. It found, furthermore, that ...
Under the work requirement, people would have to prove they are employed in order to sign up for services and renew them each year. The state health secretary would develop exceptions to allow enrollment by full-time students, caretakers, veterans and those with medic...
While primary care clinicians provide critical mental health screening and treatment, it will be important to examine trends in mental health personnel capacity at FQHCs, especially for a population with SMIs. Generalizability may be limited as the study is specific to Massachusetts and the time ...
Another Kaiser study found that most working-age adults on Medicaid are already employed. Nearly 60 percent work either full time or part time, mainly for employers that don’t offer health insurance. Most who are not working report reasons such as illness, caring for a family member or going...
Overutilization of the emergency department (ED) is a significant problem in the United States (US), characterized mainly by patients with non-emergent conditions seeking care in a setting designed specifically for acute care. This has significantly incr
States receive block grants to design and administer the time-sensitive program to help ensure that dependent individuals are cared for while still being able to be part of their family. 86Upper Payment Limit (UPL) Established through Medicare regulations, the upper payment limit restricts the ...
Fifth, while we used very simplified categories for race and ethnicity, the distinctions used are those commonly reported in the literature. Future studies will more fully explore the association between distinct racial and ethnic groups and diagnosis of primary hypertension....
While the values have little meaning on their own, they will be used to compare partial and full models to in Table 4, Table 5. Table 4 shows that adults in states that did not expand Medicaid were significantly more likely to be overweight or obese, but significantly less likely to be ...
Drug utilization is defined in this study as the day supply of drug product reimbursed by the Ohio Medicaid program A novel simulation model using community pharmacy claim data was employed to assess drug utilization in mail order pharmacy and mail order cost reduction required to become cost ...